Example sentences of "never [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was never that way with me , ’ she told Channel 4 's Big Breakfast . |
| 2 | But he was n't like some I could mention — never that sort of noisy , knocking-it-down guy . |
| 3 | ca n't never that filter to be like that have you ? |
| 4 | My father and mother slept in the room facing the street and when I was small my black cast-iron drop sided cot was placed next to the bed which had a never -forgotten picture over it . |
| 5 | Chaplin never used film for some extraneous purpose ; rather he fulfilled himself as a cinema artist by using film 's own logic and by fulfilling the expectation of that vast audience that had come to accept film as something that worked and as something that offered ‘ sure-fire ’ entertainment . |
| 6 | The result was that sometimes members of the family or others who went to her for help came away empty-handed , however great their needs or deserts might be ; Addy never used need as a yardstick But on the other side of the medal were the occasions , such as this one , when she volunteered something you 'd never have dreamed of asking for , and you were free to accept it because you knew she 'd be disappointed , not relieved , if you refused . |
| 7 | I 've always thought it would be fun — We never celebrated Christmas at home . " |
| 8 | Never empty ashes into cane or rush wastepaper baskets . |
| 9 | For some reason , the Customs inspectors never suspected homes as smugglers . ’ |
| 10 | The common law never developed mechanisms for appeals as we understand them today , and all appellate powers are statutory in origin . |
| 11 | ‘ I would never subject Kirsty to that sort of tug-of-love . ’ |
| 12 | Keep the whole thing in perspective , avoid paranoia , and never substitute aggression for confidence . |
| 13 | The Masai never accepted football as the moral equivalent of war . |
| 14 | There was never much conviction in the way Biggs fought , his attitude more that of a man boxing from memory rather than one attempting to resurrect a shattered career , and Mason was never persuaded that genuine peril might result from exchanges in the middle of the ring . |
| 15 | Barry knew there was never much chance of Billy going into the family business , and he was disappointed , but he 's not a vindictive man . |
| 16 | He was decisive and never wasted time on second thoughts . |
| 17 | Never fit valves to safety vent pipes . |
| 18 | In many ways the term ‘ one-parent family ’ is a misleading shorthand for a variety of situations ; from that of a never married mother of 19 , to that of a widowed mother of 55 . |
| 19 | Although it was one of the train 's first stops and there were never many passengers on board , the people waiting at Raxaul always crammed around the doors , clambering up and forcing themselves in . |
| 20 | He was never more present than in this act ; never more comprehending of himself than when buried in the other sex . |
| 21 | You will not have to depend on now or never clinical demonstrations in the clinical room ; nor will you be reduced to knock-kneed terror at the prospect of a viva voce examination . |
| 22 | He circled the chamber slowly , stopping occasionally to examine the never changing activities of the ghostly figures . |
| 23 | Never living north of London . |
| 24 | Talk in sentences , never one word at a time . |
| 25 | It was pretty small and there was never enough chairs for everybody . |
| 26 | When you start to build bonfires in someone 's back garden , there 's never enough space between the fire and the property , and consequently you can get all sorts of damage er either of a minor nature of blistering , or at the other end of the scale complete burn out of the house . |
| 27 | If the contras could be neither saints nor crack troops , their appeal had to lie in romantic desperation : the ‘ fact ’ that they had been forced into exile , like the ‘ little old lady ’ with her hair in a bun and her dress ‘ held together by safety pins and string ’ whom Owen had met in a camp in Honduras ; the ‘ fact ’ that the soldiers were without food or uniforms , their hospitals nothing but hen-coops , lacking even mosquito netting ; the fact that there was never enough money for anything . |
| 28 | There was never enough money for essentials . |
| 29 | There were never enough men for the work they had to do . |
| 30 | A never idle man of great physical strength and extremely irascible — did he not fling a badly-baked plum pudding through a window upon Christmas Day ? — a man more joyous than any intellectual man of our world … |